To mark its fifth anniversary, the Arab film festival will showcase movies this month that will unravel the intricate tapestry of culture and humanity in the Middle East and North Africa. The event will run from May 25-June 1 at the Arthouse Momo in Ewha Women’s University in Seoul and Busan Cinema Center. Tickets are…

Everything is connected ! In particular our beautiful country of France with unsavory regimes in Africa. Our friendships and kindnesses towards various African plutocrats seem limitless. Bottomless. Without light. Obscure. As the journalist Nicolas B. reminds us, on the site of mondafrique.com, everything is not all white, and everything is not all black. As Abderrahmane…

Boubacar Coulibaly, chairman of the African Film Festival, wants to help bring the cultures of his homeland to a New Zealand audience. For Boubacar Coulibaly, film presents the ideal vehicle with which to express cultures of his homeland. The Aucklander is the chairman of the African Film Festival, a showcase now running for its…

As the rest of the entertainment capital remains embroiled in a discussion of the question of diversity and inclusion, the 2016 Pan African Film Festival (PAFF) is set to showcase an abundance of visual treats from every corner of the African diaspora. Founder and executive director Ayuko Babu is justifiably excited about the 160 films…

The call for participation launched by the Association of filmmakers “Project’Heurts” in anticipation of the 14th Film Forum Bejaia to be held from 3 to 9 September 2016, was warmly received. In just two days, the organizers have already received twenty films, according to Lilia Aoudj, one of the facilitators of the association who kindly…

After having celebrated the last four editions in Cordoba, the African Film Festival-FCAT has announced that it will hold its 13th edition in both Tarifa, Europe’s southernmost city, and Tangiers in northern Morocco, thereby celebrating African cinema on both shores of the Straits of Gibraltar. Africa and Europe, Tarifa and Tangiers, are only 11km apart,…

Let us just focus on the four key things that a healthy film industry brings to a country… Film is a cultural diplomacy tool. Look around you and see all the cultural arms of the various embassies operating in Ghana and in many instances, budgets placed aside by their home countries to support the promotion…

From April 7 to 14 2016, Lomé will host the third encounter of the cinematic art called the Lomé Film Festival (Fescilom) with the theme “Cinema and sustainable development goals (SDGs)“. This festival is an international platform for the promotion of Togolese short films. All Togolese directors, technicians and production houses who already have to their credit a…

The 15th edition of the Animation International Film Festival of Meknes (FICAM) will be held from 25 to 30 March, said the organizers. The FICAM “in its 15th edition will be celebrating longevity and maturity which make this event a unique one across the African continent and the Arab world”, says the French Institute of Meknes,…

The organizers African Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) on Tuesday explained the choice of Lagos, Nigeria for the 2016 edition, saying the last year’s event was negatively impacted by delay in visa issuance by South Africa, the host country. According to the 0rganisers of one of African prestigious events for rewarding and celebrating creativity in the…